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costulata, epipleuris distinctis. Pedes tenuati; femora fusiformia ; 
tibiæ recte. Core anticæ subcontigue. 
The strongly faceted eyes in this genus are an exceptional character in 
this and in a few others of the forty-eight “groupes” into which Lacor- 
daire has divided his “ Section B ” of the Cerambycide. In other respects 
Stenopotes differs, in the form of the prothorax, in the presence of epipleure 
to the elytra, ete., from both Hhagiomorpha and Tritocosmia, the other two 
genera of the “ groupe.” These he differentiates by the one having a tuft 
of hairs on the third joint of the antenne, which the other has not. At 
best this is a doubtful character ; one objeetion to it is, that the tuft very 
often, apparently, belongs to the insect only in its earlier life.* Rhagio- 
morpha is at present confined to one species—lepturoides, Boisd. My R. 
exilis, from its prothorax slightly protuberant but not spined at the sides, 
will probably form the type of a new genus.  Stenoderus concolor, McLeay 
(“ King’s Voyage," IL, 452), with which Lacordaire identifies R. lepturoides, 
is a true Stenoderus. 
Stenopotes pallidus. ^ 
S. elongatus, fulvescens, vix nitidus, capite prothoraceque saturati- 
oribus, illo in medio canaliculato ; rostro longitudine paulo latiore, 
planato-marginato; antennis leviter piloso -fimbriatis, articulo 
tertio quam sequentibus multo breviore; prothorace latitudine ses- 
quilongiore, postice gradatim latiore, pone apicem parum incur- 
vato, supra lineis duabus pilosis notato ; scutello subrotundato ; ely- 
tris prothorace quintuplo longioribus, supra plunatis, singulis cos- 
tulis duabus longitudinalibus instructis; infra pedibusque pube 
tenuissime indutis. Long. 7 lin. 
Hab. : Waikato. 
XUTHODES. 
Caput breve, inter oculos sulcatum. Oculi magni, supra distantes. 
Antenne corpore longiores, tenuiter ciliate, articulo basali ob- 
conico, tertio fere æquali, quarto paulo breviore, quinto ad unde- 
cimum longioribus.  Prothoras antice late truncatus, utrinque 
bituberculatus, tuberculo anteriore apicali, altero mediano, disco 
inequali. Elytra oblonga, parallela. Pedes mediocres; femora 
fusiformia. Prosternum angustum, arcuatum. 
* In the case of Tritocosmia digglesii (“ Tr. Ent. Soc.” ser. 2, V., p. 58), one of my 
specimens has the tuft reduced to a small patch at one point of the apex of the joint ; 
this is what I alluded to in saying that the tuft was ‘ deciduous,” an expression which 
M. Lacordaire has taken to mean a denial of its existence. In the same note (Gen. MAI. 
p. 408) he quotes me as giving “ Nouvelle Bretagne" (from which PAM I have never 
seen an insect) instead of New South Wales, as the habitat of T. rubea. The re EBD hoi 
T. paradoxa are remarkable, but do not, in the absence of other characters, justify its 
generic separation as Lacordaire suggests. m 
